Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some are were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you would like to contribute an article please get in touch.
Was Lord Kitchener gay?
Ever since the publication of the biography entitled ‘Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist’ by Philip Magnus in 1958 th…
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The air raid on Chatham Drill Hall 3 September 1917
On 3 September 1917, the Chatham Drill Hall – then a glass roofed building – was being used as a temporary overflow dorm…
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The restoration of a ‘lost’ war memorial – Woodborough Road Baptist Church, Nottingha…
The Woodborough Road Baptist church in Nottingham was an imposing late Victorian building, designed by the eminent archi…
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Balloonatics
There are many groups of combatants who could claim to be the ‘unsung’ heroes of the First World War. One group with a p…
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Running the Rufiji Gauntlet: The destruction of SMS Königsberg
Early on the morning of 6 July 1915 two warships slipped away from Tirene Bay on Mafia Island, and slowly headed towards…
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Gilbert the Filbert
Captain Basil Hallam Radford, No 1 Army Kite Ballon Section, Royal Flying Corps was born on 3 April 1888 and lived on Cr…
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'Roasting a sausage': Balloons, their crews, and those who shot them down
Although observation balloons had been used as early as 1794 the static nature of the conflict in the First World War pr…
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Great War Crested China
Webinars which have been produced by The Western Front Association and watched live or via the Facebook page have been a…
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A Liverpool Lad at Ypres
“The Valley of the Shadow, 31 July 1917. Down in the valley the Steenbeek flows, A brook you may cross with an easy str…
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The First Non-Stop Transatlantic Flight
In 1913, the Daily Mail newspaper offered a prize of £10,000 to ‘the aviator who shall first cross the Atlantic in an ae…
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Vivian Hicking - a Grimsby Chum in India
After the armistice, many men would have been returning to their homes after receiving their discharge from the army; ho…
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The Gotha Air Raid on London – 13 June 1917
German air raids on Britain during the First World War began in early 1915 when Zeppelins were used to bomb coastal targ…
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